"humble bundle featuring a harry potter game supporting the ESA" is like... wow! I can get a side of FLAMING garbage with my garbage? I can fund a "charity" that actively advocates AGAINST game preservation _and_ jkr at the same time? wow! not in a million fucking years
there's a real "the customer is always right" sort of performance of faux humility around design decisions. you won't always know /why/ something hits a certain way or not, but you /can/ always look at feedback and go "does this fit our mission statement?" and simply say no to it.
Apropos of nothing, Gunpei Yokoi's "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology" ideology might be a real good idea for developers to embrace in an era when hardware is getting stupid expensive for stupid reasons.
A friend of mine who runs these things always repeats something to me along the lines of "Playtests and Research isn't for telling you the right thing to do, it's to confirm to you that your assumptions are correct and that your intentions are getting through to the players" and that's stuck with me
Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness. I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.
Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes
there's a constant background radiation of ableism on the internet these days that makes it very not fun to use. never know when i'm gonna stumble across someone casually being incredibly cruel about autistic people, either implicitly or explicitly
a parody of that windows 12 """""""news"""""""" story going around from tech4gamers.com claiming windows 12 is real, releasing this year, and my friend
i only get my news from the finest of websites, and folks, its bad
i'm terrible at platforming but the world and characters ive seen in the screenshots make me so interested in seeing what's going to happen
thank you for all the love on this!!!!! 🫶🫶🫶 lifelinetheworld
A third of the way through the Anachronox demo, the player encounters a hulking alien merchant. “My sorrow runs deep,” the merchant, whose name is Demonstrare, says. “I will only exist for the short duration of this demo. I do not exist in the full version. “Write the company. Tell them that you want me in the full version.” What Demonstrare, even with his curse of self-awareness, did not anticipate was that if anyone did ask Ion Storm to bring him over to “the full version,” it wouldn’t have mattered. The demo shipped on a disc stuck to the cover of a PC Gamer — where it shared space with now-forgotten
titles like Throne of Darkness and The Corporate Machine — four months after Anachronox itself had been released, and three months after Ion Storm’s parent company had shut down the studio. Demonstrare never made it to Anachronox. And while twenty-five years later the game can run on modern hardware, the demo does not. Demonstrare is gone. Recently, I asked Richard Gaubert, the writer of Anachronox, if the developers ever heard anything about Demonstrare. Gaubert didn’t even remember the character.
Here is a little bit of @duncanfyfe.net's afterword for "How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away?"
still thinking about. Organisms.
Hi hello just QRPing some info abt this coming in from the other site. This news is fake, it was a hallucination.
the lounge area from half-life's office complex, in the alpha 0.52 build
Waterway from Cave Story in footage of a very different looking unreleased prototype. Quote (at this point named Curly Brace) is being followed by Sue, who has a snorkel.
today's aesthetic: the one area in a game that survived a development reset mostly unscathed
big part of the artistic process for me is reverence. everything i make i do so with care and intention because the act of making it is itself the art. the act of making the game is as important or more important than the end product. it’s ritual and meditation for me. it’s cleansing.
never been a fan of these internet meme terms for aesthetics since some of them gain purchase but they're never very useful in an art historical or historiographical way
treat for myself this week was picking up valkyrie saga which im rlly enjoying so far!!
a lot of very serious people are reacting to a headline published by a website called "tech 4 gamers" no one has heard of before that just rips off a rumors piece in pcworld. it would be completely trivial to manipulate this information environment
a piece of paper with scraps of various photos cards and other things laid out in the shape of a few paragraphs
A wordless RPG containing the instructions for the creation and destruction of itself, which were then followed to the letter (Mixed Media, February 2026)
the fucking freesound lady scream sound effect
A compact, low-profile anthro dragon robot with a very blocky head and blue armour panels.
An updated version of the same character, now with more mechanical greebling and stripes of vibrant fuchsia.
a third version, with longer limbs and a more upright posture.
i should get deeper into my ocs some time.
featuring: autistic nonbinary dragon mechanic who steals and salvages military hardware to make themself new robot bodies
iunno. it feels like this game’s fate was foreseeable the moment it was pitched, but money people want a single cash cow, and gamble in hopes that players will entirely ditch games they’ve spent hundreds or thousands of hours in in favor of the hot new thing.
BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.
Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.
More info:
m9 beretta for a quake engine game me and wife are working on together :3
#indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #pixelart
sure you should check the food bowl and all but riffing is typically a sign that you're housing your writers in an overstocked tank. you're going to need a bigger enclosure and/or to rehome some writers. otherwise they'll get their plots tangled together and form a "writer king"
Stealing this phrase from a friend; "you don't love a YouTuber, you love their editor"
message to all women worldwide: eat heartily, laugh with ur belly, sleep soundly, freely build many gadgets and gizmos, play & draw always
check it out, 3D model commissions for VRChat and any game you want! go to gmadcomms.carrd.co for more info and DM me if interested! #lowpoly #3dart #commissions #vrchat
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